Daily Links, March 7, 2011

What's revealed against the background of the blogs today?

BLOGS:

• Take the Chinese vegetarian challenge.
• Frozen Garlic is back! with a few thoughts on the by-election victory of the DPP.
• The Pod villages: the other one.
• Taiwan aborigine foods: not for the faint of heart.
• Picking strawberries in Taiko with great pics.
• Ben rips the Green Party for the way it treats workers.
• OzSoapbox finds the Addams family in Taiwan
• The silly "protest" site against the Montreal Gazette piece has been folded.
• Taihoku Aerodrome on Google Maps
• The Dutch in Danshui in the 17th century
• ERTC on the Chen Yunlin visit.
• Laorencha has another awesome one (prepare coffee and a snack!), on the Lindsey Craig article, asking why there are so few expat women in Asia.
  
• Taiwan distance calculator for cyclists.
• First China coast mission by a U-2
• Peter on what deepening India-Japan relations mean for China
• Jenna updates her post on Indian food in Taipei.
  
• Giant looms over China.
  

MEDIA:

• Excellent Phils commentary on the Taiwan-Philippine dispute over the Manila 14.
• Rupert Hammond-Chambers in WSJ on America's Taiwan policy
• Taiwan to open hi-tech industry to Chinese state inteference investors from China.
• China buys influence in US academe
• China to split ASEAN?
• A Narrowing Window for Obama on China?
• China growls, whines, pees on floor about US arms sales to Taiwan again.
• World Socialist on Phils/China confrontation in the South China Sea.
• How Canon retains its lead over all other camera firms.
• Four issues for the new health minister.
• 9 killed in Taichung club fire -- a miracle it was only 9.
• China's growing military capabilities.
• Lots of stuff about Glaser out there, but this Holmes/Yoshihara piece was great
• Opposition to the Kuokuang 8 petrochemical complex in Changhua grows. I wish the media would stop writing "Growth vs Environment". That's a false dichotomy. My long one on that economic and environmental disaster is here.
• The MOE wants to return Confucian classics the "Four Books" to the curriculum "in response to widespread bullying, drug use and gang problems among young people." This is because in China before modern times, there was never any opium use, armed gangs, or bullying.
• If it can be done in NY, it can be done here.
  

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